Twisk

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The village centre (dark green) and the statistical district (light green) of Twisk in the municipality of Noorder-Koggenland.

Twisk (52°44′ N 5°3′ E ) is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Noorder-Koggenland, and lies about 10 km north of Hoorn.

Twisk was a separate municipality until 1979, when the new municipality of Noorder-Koggenland was created.[1]

In 2001, the small village centre of Twisk had 398 inhabitants. The built-up area of the village was 0.07 km2, and contained 159 residences.[2] Most of the population of Twisk lives outside the centre, along the road between Opperdoes and Abbekerk. The wider statistical area of Twisk has a population of around 1160.[3] This includes the hamlet Het Westeinde, close to Opperdoes.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ad van der Meer and Onno Boonstra, "Repertorium van Nederlandse gemeenten", KNAW, 2006. [1]
  2. ^ Statistics Netherlands (CBS), Bevolkingskernen in Nederland 2001 [2]. Statistics are for the continuous built-up area.
  3. ^ Statistics Netherlands (CBS), Gemeente Op Maat 2004: Noorder-Koggenland [3].

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hi all my name is peter smit born in the hamlet het west einde.... but live now in adelaide south australia for the last 20 years verry nice to vind somthing close to where i was born tnx

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